Group of Dads Send First Grader’s “Flat Stanley” All Around the World

On August 22, 2015, Reddit user nigelpoole slipped a paper doll into an envelope and sent him around the world.

The Georgia state native wasn’t just doing this for his own amusement. He was helping his son Jasper, a first grader, with a classic geography assignment common in elementary schools across the US.

Jasper’s assignment was to take a paper cutout of a fictional character named “Flat Stanley,” color it in, mail it to someone in another town, and ask the recipient to take pictures of the paper boy’s travels.

At the end of the semester, each student shares where their Stanley went with the rest of the class.

Instead of simply sending Stanley to a relative in a different state, however (which is the easy way out of this assignment), Jasper’s dad—who happens to be an avid member of the Reddit Dads community—wanted to help his son have the best Flat Stanley project of all time.

So, he solicited his fellow “dadditors” for a little help, asking if they’d host Stanley in their cities and show the two-dimensional visitor all the best sights—remembering to snap a few photos of his adventures.

Oh, how the dads delivered. Here are just a few images from nigelpoole’s globe-trotting gallery.

At the ruins of St. Andrews Cathedral in northern Scotland, thanks to Reddit user zumby: